I still cannot get this to work on my local SSMS client. It's running the same version as on the server. My problem pertains to clustered instances running 2K8 R2 Enterprise. I can gain control of he services state locally on my wkstn if I register the physical cluster node name but the virtual name just gives me the circle. The weird thing is I log onto the virtual host name and connect to the instance and all is well there. Just not my local 2005 client. Any idea on what I have to tweak on my local client in SSMS or within windows to get this to work (green arrow) so I can control all aspects of services and more importantly SSCM. The exact error message i get when accessing SSCM is below.

Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005 servers with SQL Server Configuration manager. The RPC server is unavailable [0x800706ba]

Any clues?